The use of Nearpod as a learning tool

     Nearpod is an online presentation tool that helps educators make the curriculum interactive, whether in the classroom or virtual. The program allows teachers to create interactive presentations that can contain Quizzes, Polls, Videos, Collaborate Boards, and much more. Nearpod has many benefits with students such as creating a comfortable and encouraging classroom that also ensures that students are on task and participating with its use of diversity of how students reply based on their comfort whether it may be typed, through imagery, or summited through a video/voice recording. 

    Nearpod  has certain limitations towards its users, though. For Silver accounts, which is the free accounts that allow up to 40 students join per lesson. If you and your school/district has a Premium Plus account that would allow up to 250 students to join per lesson with paying a $29 monthly fee. For Gold, up to 75 students can join per lesson with a cost of $10 a month. As for lessons themselves, Students and teachers have the ability to enlarge and scroll through images and texts on the board and having the limitation of a maximum amount of text in a post to be 250 characters. Other than the program itself the use of it being a technology tool it might carry a problem of restriction on kids or districts with none or limited technology sources. 

    Luckily, there are many ways teachers can apply Nearpod to their classrooms and lessons. Nearpod allows teachers to instruct live formative assessments like Quizzes, Polls, Open-ended Questions, Matching Pairs, Draw It activities, and more. These tools help teachers view their students responses and gain insights into the classes faster and more clearly. Nearpod also provides the use of remade and sharing resources section where you click on "Nearpod Library" where you can select through remade lessons and sources. Overall, Nearpod may or may not be for your district regarding technology stance but its a great use for both the teachers and students with learning and time management. 

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